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The synopsis for Stefan Petrucha’s Blood Prophecy conjures two thoughts in my mind: Angel from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Prince of Persia (notable, because I never saw that movie or played the game — so this is purely on looks alone). We have a vampire fighting against his nature falling for a human woman who understands his pain (see how I’m drawing the Buffy reference)? Though, my gut says this is... 
I read an interview with author Kalayna Price over at All Things Urban Fantasy this week and now I can’t wait to read the first book in her new Alex Craft series Grave Witch. The series follows a necromancer who uses her grave magic to raise shades. In addition to the plot surrounding P.I. who can get answers from the dead, her love interest is none other than Death. A necromancer falling in love with... 
We have four months to wait for Jeff Sampson’s Vesper: A Deviants Novel to hit shelves in January 2011, but we want to talk about it now. The synopsis makes us imagine a modern-day Jekyll and Hyde en masse…with teenagers. If we’re right, it could be pretty amazing. Also, we’re certainly not going to be knocking the cover. Read the cover copy and see why we’re drawn to Vesper: Emily Webb is a geek. And... 
We’ll be honest, when we first picked up Evernight at the bookstore we were expecting it to be so-so. Another vampire book set at a school. We’d just read Vampire Academy books, so the bar was set high. But Claudia Gray’s series following Bianca (not a vampire, but very close with them) and Lucas (part of a long line of vampire hunters) was different, engaging and got under our skin. You often hear... 
Sure, we like dark books. We like drama. (Richelle Mead, I’m looking at you.) We like books with evil villains. With surprising heroines (Stacia Kane, your turn to be stared at.) With strong heroines. With awesome love stories possibly filled with alpha heroes. (Did we mention we liked Veil of Shadows and Sins of the Soul? Just checking.) But you know, we also need some fairydust every now and then. I’m... 
The description for the first book in Kersten Hamilton’s Goblin Wars series, Tyger Tyger, makes us think of David Bowie*, but we swear that isn’t the reason we’re looking forward to reading the book. (It wasn’t the William Blake reference in the title either.) Sometimes you just need an epic escape, and — while it sounds like things will be rough for the heroine — our gut says with its goblins, quirky BFF... 
Stellar paranormal romance writer Meljean Brook is entering the steampunk realm with The Iron Duke, the first of her new Iron Seas series. We’re excited to see how she engaging style into the industrial world of steampunk. Though, we do have to wait until Oct. 5 to read The Iron Duke, we’re moving it to the top of the to-read list now. (Not sure what steampunk is? Read Scott Westerfeld’s blog post on the... 
We’re going short-notice for this week’s Waiting on Wednesday. Kresley Cole’s Demon from the Dark comes out next Tuesday, Aug. 24, and we’re eager to pick it up. In addition to merging more adult paranormal romance novels into our reading mix, we’re excited for this one because it offers so many obstacles for our hero and heroine to overcome. You’ve got a demon, who is cursed and infected with vampiric... 
We like dark overtones in our novels. While usually these are urban fantasy, we can’t resist a great horror novel. Brenna Yovanoff creates a creepy world where children may be replaced with creatures from the underworld in The Replacement. She also puts some heavy problems on her protagonist Mackie from the get-go. He is one of those replacement children. He would give anything to stay in our world and... 
We’re intrigued by the new outlook on immortality presented in Merrie Destefano’s debut Afterlife. Custom designed clones? A set number of chances to get it right? We’re curious to see how it all plays out. The novel, the first of a new Resurrection Chronicles series, will be released on Sept. 28, 2010. Get the feeling for the book via the book trailer below. (Synopsis posted after the jump.) Back cover... 
